ST. LOUIS, Mo. (First Alert 4) - Southwest is cutting direct flights from Lambert to Little Rock, Tulsa, Charlotte, Des Moines, Oklahoma City, and Wichita.

To put this into perspective: with these six flights going away, Lambert will have 71 nonstop markets left. Of those, Southwest operates 60.

While this leaves an uncertain future for many travelers, it also changes the way companies do business in the metro.

Anyone coming in or out of Terminal Two will now have fewer options. Southwest, the terminal’s mainstay and dominant carrier at Lambert, is cutting routes.

“No, no, absolutely not. Keep people flying,” Southwest passenger Curtis Howard said.

“How is that going to make anything better? To me, they’re going to lose business,” St. Louis resident Beth Huffman said.

Beth Huffman is

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